“Slight of hand and twist of fate/ On a bed of nails she makes me wait/ And I wait without you/ With or without you” (U2.1987). The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a love story by William Shakespeare. It is about two different people, coming from feuding families who fall in love and try to run away and stay together forever, but it turns out horribly. Although, Romeo, and Juliet is a love story one may claim that Friar Lawrence and the Nurse were responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet because the Nurse kept it a secret and Friar Lawrence gave Juliet the potion to Juliet. Some believe Romeo and Juliet are responsible for their own deaths but that is not the case. Romeo and Juliet did kill themselves but they killed themselves because someone banished Romeo and someone gave Juliet a potion to fake her death. They are wrong because Friar lawrence gave …show more content…
“Take thou this vial, being then in bed,/ And this distilling liquor drink thou off;/ When presently through all thy veins shall run/ A cold and drowsy humor; for no pulse/ Shall keep his native progress, but surcease./ No warmth, no [breath] shall testify thou livest (4.1.95-100). Friar Lawrence specifically told Juliet to fake her death to be with Romeo although, they both knew it could kill her. Friar Lawrence also agrees to marry the couple in secret which is horrific if it were ever to happen now. He also sees their marriage as a bad thing, but he does it anyone. He thinks Romeo is too young to love and he does not believe in love at first sight. The Nurse kept Romeo and Juliet’s love a secret and Friar Lawrence gave Juliet the potion so they can live together forever without anyone knowing and that is why Friar Lawrence and the Nurse cause Romeo and Juliets death. “These violet delights have violent ends”
In Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet two lovers are not meant to be together resulting in the tragic death of both Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers meet at a ball and fall in love at once, but they do not know until the end of the night that they are each from different feuding houses. They decide to marry in secret the next day. However, on that same day Romeo gets banished from Verona for killing Tybalt, Juliet’s cousin, and Juliet is being forced to marry County Paris in the next three days. Friar Lawrence, give Juliet a sleeping potion that will make her appear dead for three day. But when Romeo arrives to see her dead, he kills himself leaving Juliet to wake up and seeing him
Romantic love stories are often ended with a tragedy, because of loss of passion or a loved one. These tragedies are often the result of one person’s actions that ended someone’s life or love. In the Romeo and Juliet play written by William Shakespeare, two citizens of Verona come together and fall deeply in love. Unfortunately their love comes to an end, along with their lives, because of a misunderstanding and a persistent feud between their families. Although there are many characters in this play that have contributed to Romeo and Juliet’s death, Friar Laurence is the person most to blame.
According to Act V Scene III it states, “Come, I’ll dispose of thee among a sisterhood of nuns.” Juliet relies “ Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. Then Friar Lawrence left Juliet to be with her husband. According to this quote, it seems like Friar Laurence does not care for Juliet. He is only trying to protect himself from the watchman. He should not have done that because earlier in the book she was threatening to kill herself. According to Act IV Scene I, it states “ I long to die if what thou speak'st speak not of remedy. According to that quote, she's saying if you don’t have anything to fix this I will be able to take my own life to be with Romeo, hat s when Friar Lawrence gives her the potion and tells her to take it.He left her in a upsetting mood. Hs e had more of a chance to take her life. He should have conforted her, but he didn’t, and left her to be on her own. Then she had killed herself.
“O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?” Is a famous quote from “Romeo and Juliet.” The author of “Romeo and Juliet” is William Shakespeare. The story is about two families that hate each other. Juliet from the Capulets and Romeo from the Montagues fell in love at first sight. Then tragedy strikes and it all falls down hill. Even though Romeo and Juliet committed suicide, their untimely deaths are ultimately caused by the Nurse and Friar Lawrence.
In the play “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare the people who are to blame for the deaths of both Romeo and Juliet, are Friar Lawrence and the Nurse. Friar lawrence and the Nurse made six preventable mistakes that lead up to the terrible tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Love is an addiction that can drive individuals to do impulsive actions such as murder and theft. In William Shakespeare’s tragedy, “Romeo & Juliet”, Friar Lawrence, Fate, and Romeo are most responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet, demonstrating that individuals who make impulsive and quick decisions are destined to have bad fate.
Could one person be at fault for more than one fatal deaths? In Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Friar Laurence is seen to be one of the characters that is at fault for the deaths in the play, including Romeo and Juliet’s untimely deaths. Although many could be at fault for the deaths in the play, Friar Laurence is secretive, rash, and selfish, causing him to be most responsible for the tragedy.
The play “Romeo and Juliet” shows the death of two teen lovers. But who is to blame? Friar Lawrence is the man that married the two lovers and made the plan that went wrong causing the death of the young Romeo and Juliet. He didn’t get the letter to Romeo in time and he gave Juliet the sleeping potion. He also left Juliet alone with the body of her dead husband and she was also in a hostile state. Causing her to make a bad decision, killing herself.
In the play, the Friar was responsible for marrying Romeo and Juliet. So when Romeo was exiled and Juliet was to marry Paris, this caused the two lovers to do anything to be with there Juliet or Romeo. Therefore, the Friar then devulged a plan for Juliet to drink a potion that would make her appear dead, so then the Capulets would take her to the grave. However, when Romeo arrived and Juliet had not awoken from this sleep he believed that she had died taing his own life, followed by Juliet taking her life. If Friar Lawrence had not married Romeo and Juliet or thought up this plan, Romeo and Juliet would still be
Gulp! There goes the poison out of Romeo’s bottle. Ugh! There goes Juliet stabbing herself once she sees her husband dead. Romeo and Juliet’s death was tragic, but who was most responsible for their death?
Romeo and Juliet, the ‘star-crossed lovers’, were doomed to a tragic end by Friar Lawrence, their final hope. In this analytical essay, the statement ‘Friar Lawrence is to blame for the tragic events that occur in the play’ will be proved true. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence’s belief in his vision for Romeo and Juliet’s future, leads him to cause the tragic end to their love story instead. There are three reasons why Friar Lawrence is to blame, firstly he should not have agreed to marry Romeo and Juliet, secondly he should not have given Juliet the sleeping potion, and thirdly he failed the most important aspect of his plan, which was to deliver the message to Romeo.
William Shakespeare once said, “The course of true love never did run smooth.” Romeo and Juliet were madly in love with each other. They could only tell a handful of people about their feelings for each other because their parents hated each other. Romeo and Juliet decided to get married, and everything went downhill from there. In the end, Romeo and Juliet committed suicide. Even though Romeo and Juliet took their own lives, their fathers and Friar Lawrence are ultimately responsible for their deaths.
First of all the potion could have accidentally been the wrong thing and she could have been poisoned and killed right there. Second the Friar had Juliet drink the potion before Romeo knew about the plan. The Friar is a man of God and he had Juliet break the law and fake her own death. The Friar’s last fault in the story was that he did not wait for the letter to get to Romeo before telling Juliet to drink the potion.
Friar Lawrence is the one who provides the potion to Juliet knowing the risks and possible failures the plan could contain. As he gives her the potion, he says, “A thing like death to chide away this shame, That cop’st with death himself to ‘scape from it; And if thou darest, I’ll give thee remedy” (4.1.75-78).
To prevent Juliet’s suicide, the Friar comes up with a plan. He says to Juliet, “take thou this vial, being then in bed, and this distilling liquor drink thou off.”(IV.i.95-96) Friar Lawrence wants Juliet to fake her own death and lie in the tomb of Capulet, to get out of marrying Paris. However, this plan backfires when Romeo does not receive the letter that the Friar had sent him and he kills himself over Juliet’s ‘death’, and Juliet in response kills herself over his death. The Friar’s exertion contributes to the plot, because the tragedy at the end of the play would not have occurred without his actions.